<html><body>No, it&#39;s not just funny vowels.  The reason they look that way is you&#39;re viewing them on a system that doesn&#39;t have a font in the iso-8859-8 character set installed.  You&#39;re seeing it as if the character set was iso-8859-1, the Western European character set.  If you view it on a system with the iso-8859-8 character set font installed properly, you&#39;ll see that it&#39;s my name in Hebrew.  Assuming you have a MIME-smart mail reader, this picture should show you what reading your message looks like on my screen:&lt;nl&gt;<br/>&lt;nl&gt;<br/></body></html>